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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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y <strong>the</strong>mselves, but not <strong>the</strong> two in <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

combination, would be as legends are written.<br />

<strong>The</strong>ir coincidence is due to <strong>the</strong> incidence <strong>of</strong> truth.<br />

Indeed, it is characteristic <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> History <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Christ, <strong>and</strong> all <strong>the</strong> more evidential that it is so<br />

evidently undesigned in <strong>the</strong> structure <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

narrative, that every deepest m&nifestation <strong>of</strong> His<br />

Humanity is immediately attended by highest<br />

display <strong>of</strong> His Divinity, <strong>and</strong> each special display<br />

<strong>of</strong> His Divine Power followed by some marks <strong>of</strong><br />

His true Humanity. Assuredly, no narrative could<br />

be more consistent with <strong>the</strong> fundamental<br />

assumption that He is <strong>the</strong> God-Man.<br />

Thus viewed, <strong>the</strong> picture is unspeakably sublime.<br />

<strong>Jesus</strong> is asleep, for very weariness <strong>and</strong> hunger, in<br />

<strong>the</strong> stem <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ship. His head on that low wooden<br />

bench, while <strong>the</strong> heavens darken, <strong>the</strong> wild wind<br />

swoops down those mountain-gorges, howling<br />

with hungry rage over <strong>the</strong> trembling sea; <strong>the</strong> waves<br />

rise <strong>and</strong> toss, <strong>and</strong> lash <strong>and</strong> break over <strong>the</strong> ship, <strong>and</strong><br />

beat into it, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> white foam washes at His Feet.<br />

His Humanity here appears as true as when He lay

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